Full Game Reviews

I first played “Drakkhen” a long, long time ago, when it was first released on the SNES in 1991. I didn’t know at the time that it was a port of a PC game, which itself was a port of an Amiga game (if you’d have asked me what an Amiga was, I would have told you, ‘it’s Spanish for friend’). I was just coming into my identity as a Fantasy nerd, and would snap up pretty much anything with a picture of a dragon on it. Hence “Drakkhen” became a part of my SNES RPG collection, though it would be years and years before I managed to finish it.

With the re-release of the PC version of the game on both Steam and GOG this summer, I was spurred to dust off my old “Drakkhen” SNES cartridge, gaze at it nostalgically, then put it back in the cupboard before firing up RetroArch and loading up a “Drakk...